Apparatus for hoisting water



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEioE.

HENRY VATERMAN, OF HAVERHIIL, MASSACHUSETTS.

APPARATUS FOR HOISTING WATER.

Speccaton of Letters Patent No. 27,400, dated March 6, 1860.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY I/VATERMAN, of Haverhill, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Apparatus for Hoisting IVater, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure I, is a perspective view of my ap paratus. Fig. 2, a vertical section through the same.

I am aware that an apparatus for hoisting water from a well has been arranged in which the bucket when hoisted to a suiiicient height was caused to discharge its contents into a trough attached to or passing through the well curb. To accomplish this it was necessary that the bucket should always be brought up with the same side toward the discharge trough; this required the bucket to be either guided by the hand of the person hoisting (which was inconvenient) or to be raised by a flat band which would prevent it from turning.

The object of my present invention is to so arrange a water hoisting apparatus, that a self-discharging bucket may be used with the ordinary hoisting rope or chain, and may be free to turn with theside of the bucket from which the water is discharged toward either side of the well curb; and the bucket may require no guidance, as it is hoisted either from the operator or the hoisting apparatus itself. And my invention consists in combining with a self discharging bucket, a circular trough placed around the well curb, into which the bucket may discharge, whenraised to a sullicient height; also in certain details of arrangement for discharging the bucket when so hoisted up.

That others skilled in the art may understand and use my invention I will proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried out the same.

In the said drawings A, is the wellcurb, B, the frame which supports the windlass C. A circular trough D (by preference of metal) is placed within the well curb A. It has an outlet spout or pipe a. passing through the well curb; its inner side is of a conical form as shown at b, to allow the bucket more easily to pass up through it. Around the top of the inner side Z), of this trough are placed the metal posts or pins c, to prevent the bucket from being swung too far over the edge of the trough.

Immediately below the windlass C, a plank or frame E extends across from one side to the other of the frame B, to which it is attached. It has a hole CZ, in the middle of it for the rope F to pass through, and has attached to its under side the metal funnel or pipe G the lower edge e, of which is doubled back or otherwise rounded off to prevent its cutting.

The bucket I-I, is suspended from the rope F, by a bail f, its bottom is inclined toward one side as at q, it is furnished with a flap valve Zz. pivoted at 5 to its side 7c, and commanding the outlet n, through this side of the bucket. A cord (or chain) Z, is attached at 6 to the valve Zi, and is led over a pulley z' on top edge of the bucket immediately over the valve, and thence across the bucket to a rod or standard mi, rising above the top of the bucket from the side opposite to the pulley c'.

The following is the operation of this apparatus; the bucket H, is hoisted by the rope F, into the position shown in red in Fig. 2, before the bucket has reached its greatest height, the cord Z, comes in contact with the lower edge e, of the pipe G, and as the ascent of the bucket continues this cord draws on the top of the standard m, and swings the bucket out from the central vertical axis of the well until its side Z0, strikes against the guard pins c, then as it completes its ascent and the pressure is continued on the cord Z, it draws over the pulley c' and lifts the valve ZL, when the contents of the bucket are discharged through the outlet n, into the circular trough D; it being immaterial toward which side of the well curb the outlet a, of the bucket may be directed, as the trough D extends entirely around it. The weight of the valve i, and the tension of the cord Z may be so adjusted that the bucket will be raised to the desired height, and be swung over before the valve is raised. Y

The trough D need not of necessity be of a perfectly circular form, but this is the one which I prefer.

The bail f, may be so placed that when the self disehai` ing bucket H when oper the bucket has been raised sufficiently high, ated substantial y as set forth. the bail will strike against the pipe Gr, and

prevent the farther ascent of the bucket. HENRY VATERMAN' 5 that I claim as my invention and desire fit-messes:

to secure by Letters Patent s the trough D JAMES F. BRAGG,

around the Well curb, in combination with DANIEL C. ROMBALL. 

